I am so very crazy...

Jan 29, 2006

Dr. Bob,

Does having HIV make you crazy? How does it affect your brain? I think that HIV has made me stoopid.

Response from Dr. Frascino

Hello,

George? George W.? Is that you again? Now, Georgie, we've been through this before. Yes, you are "stoopid." You've made that plainly obvious to everyone over and over and over again. But HIV is not your problem. In order to contract the virus you have to have sex. And we know the last time you did that was well before the epidemic started. So relax, Dubya. You've got more important things to occupy your attention-deficit mind trying to learn to speak English, for instance.

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